Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

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we gauche we know it

― Anglo Scarfy (rip van wanko), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:00 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its pronounced gauche fyi

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:01 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, this is some cold shit. truth tho.

thats a local garda rip from waaay back tbh i use it at every op

whats "byoodiful" mean apparently i say this now

what do you say, "boatyful?"

no i mean i have been noted, in iirc yr very presence, as saying the above

"end of"

end of

I'm not sure where this belongs, but I'll just put it here.

Anyway, at work I was discussing a newly hired person in management with another member of management. He relayed to me a scenario where he was working a shift with this new hire (female) and he was coming to the end of his shift but had not completed his assigned task, because of other things more pressing that only management could handle that come up around the store throughout his shift. He was close, but alas, the task was incomplete. He checked in with the new hire prior to clocking out and told her of the status, to which she responded, "You will not clock out. You will finish the task and then you may clock out for the day" (keep in mind: they are of equal authority). He told me that this was very much a turn on to him that a female would take charge and boss him around on only the second or third day on the job. I thought to myself: that is not only a total dick move (what if the person she was demanding to work overtime had obligations outside of work that would not allow for the longer shift?), it's pretty fucking weird for him to be all into it like that. Like, that's fine if you find her attractive, but don't be weird about it. As a member of management myself, the whole situation just seemed like a cluster unprincipled behavior.

pomenitul's list of Amricanisms was surprisingly accurate

well, not the 'youthful Americans' piece of it, but that changes hourly

"OK" can only be summed up as "bad" in a certain context though. In the general case, "OK" as a reply means "I'm still listening, or at the very least I'm aware you just said something I'm meant to understand"

"OK" is the best word.

"OK" is a tool of all work and its multifarious uses can never be accurately summed.

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/environmental-health/food-safety/inspection-system/~/media/depts/health/environmental-health/images/food-safety/food-safety-ratings-emoji.ashx

"okay"

Okay means "your steaks have a lot of fly feces, but not so many as to be worrisome"

"hold my beer"

but like many such phrases, there's nothing inherently terrible about it and I vaguely remember it being amusing once or twice, it's just that these things become insta-jokes for unfunny people, like the kinds of "inside jokes" that would take shape during summer camp

they're all just like the 50th time someone yells "MOOSEJAW!" in the mess hall, except it's not the 50th time it's the 5000th time because of twitter

otm

stay away from the trump thread

Just saw a CNN headline that used the word "lit"

Oh here it is:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/index.html

I guess the response is "sharp" or something along those lines, but if it's the headline writer's idea of "lit" then the headline writer needs to get out more.

People who say or write 'cliche' when they mean 'cliched'–it's becoming very common and it really annoys me.

― estela (estela), Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:52 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In theory I am completely down with changes in usage, but this one still makes me grit my teeth every time I read it for some reason.

That's similar to how I feel about the use of "genius" to mean "ingenious" or as an adjective in any way. Generally I lean toward descriptivism, but not when it makes language uglier and more grating.

xp I'm not even sure I knew that this was a thing. I think the é kinda made me believe it was as good as an -ed? Like how you put that on when constructing many verbs in passé composé.

Adults using words like “tummy” make me want to revoke their larynx privileges

Will, I am with you. Cliché is already an adjective; the noun is the later form

I mean förm

I wrote about something related that's gotten tiresome.

https://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/say-what-you-re-saying

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jk; otm

lol

One nice fact about "cliché" is that it refers to common usages which manual typesetters used to leave assembled, to speed the task of typesetting. So if a phrase was commonly used it was left set up as a cliché.

"Have a good one" = I do not care enough about you to actively recollect what time of day it is, bye

i've been saying that recently and i don't know why. it's usually in the context of temporary interactions with other dog owners on the sidewalk. she's friendly, what's your dog's name, oh that's a lovely name, how old is she, ok now have a good one

lol same ^^ i never remember the names of the dogs either. when i see them again it's like the first time all over again. over and over.

“We’ll be in touch” - when spoken by one person to another about themselves. It just sounds so committee like

Why are LCD/LED TVs called "flat-screens" still? Remember when tube tv's with flat screens came out? Those are "flat-screens". New TVs should be called LED or panel TVs or something. I'm not highly invested in this tbr but it kinda bugs.

In the field of journalism, 'flat-screen TV' is still often used, nonsensically, as a signifier of luxury or extravagance, and features in Robert Hutton's glossary of journalese, Romps, Tots and Boffins.

I got it whipped out of some copy earlier last month.

here too, and it’s phenomenally stupid because the only way to get a bulge-screen tv is by rummaging through landfill

Whoo boy this one's been simmering under the surface for years, and it feels good to get it out -- I cannot stand the phrase "fuck cancer" or any other instance where people anthropomorphize natural processes or inanimate objects to hurl invective or hear praise as if the object had free will, it just seems woefully immature and... lame. I know in the case of cancer, it's a dreadful thing (killed my dad fwiw) so what's the harm in telling cancer to fuck itself, and yet the phrase and the impulse behind it had always repulsed me

hear=heap

I hear you.

it just sounds glib I guess

I don’t think “fuck cancer” is anthropomorphic any more than “fuck this weather”, it’s expressing simple disgust with the whole notion. “Fuck you, cancer, you took X from me,” is personification. Also, fuck cancer.

fuck tsunamis

fuck mortality tbh

Stuff like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJEmMDQXoA

jesus wept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl6i5qgdr9A

had this one in Ireland recently. Didn't go down well

yeah that was a fuckin shocker